Cannot use geoip-lite in next js application

[Karthik73965]

whenever i use geoip-lite in next js server routes that route is failing and whenever I hitted that route it will redirected me to notfound route .

The issue might be with the fs module as far i researched .

[bluesmoon]

Please describe the problem in more detail.

[Karthik73965]

@bluesmoon check description

[bluesmoon]

It doesn't sound like this is a problem with node-geoip as we do not have routes. node-geoip will only lookup an IP, returning an address. Make sure it has access to the data files. Managing your file system/containerization/etc. is outside the scope of node-geoip.

How are you installing node-geoip? Is it directly on the system or in a container? How are you upgrading the data files? Where are they stored?

[tonypee]

I found that you need to include the lib in nextjs via:

in next.config.js

/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
const nextConfig = {
  experimental: {
    serverComponentsExternalPackages: ["geoip-lite"],
  },
};

module.exports = nextConfig;